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...help meet the free world's refugee problems by permitting "the special admission of 120,000 immigrants per year for the next two years." A few days later, the chairman of Congress' Joint Immigration Committee revealed that the President had asked for a re-examination of the McCarran Act "with a view to achieving legislation which would be fair and just to all." ¶Wrote C.I.O. Boss Walter Reuther (who had asked him to call a conference on full employment) that he "firmly" subscribes to "the Employment Act of 1946, [which] reflects a determination on the part...
...Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee could find no evidence of treason on his part. Instead, they indicted him on seven counts of perjury. If imprisoned because of any one of them, he will thenceforth be known as the "convicted perjurer-traitor" by large segments of the American press and public, so it is as convenient a charge...
This is the standard scapegoat 'ritual. But Youngdahl, former Minnesota governor, has held it up, for the moment at least. In a decision as courageous as it is thoughtful, he has given the public a needed lesson in Constitutional law. Reminding that McCarran's questioning had no legal purpose but to gather information for legislation, he pointed out that perjury indictments must be relevant to that purpose to be valid. Interrogation about a man's opinions cannot be grounds for trial. Lattimore was asked whether he was a "Communist sympathizer" and whether he knew whether certain of his associates were...
Jaffe is scheduled to speak on the McCarran-Walters Act, while Neusner will deliver an address on "Early Boston Jewry," the subject of his thesis...
...Democrats: Nevada's Pat McCarran and Colorado's Ed Johnson. Eleven Republicans: Bridges, McCarthy. Dirksen, Ohio's Bricker, Idaho's Dworshak and Welker, Arizona's Goldwater, Iowa's Hickenlooper, Nevada's Malone, South Dakota's Mundt, Kansas' Schoeppel...